Hooligans in the parking lot!

Bands of hooligans are hanging out in San Francisco parking lots, and that needs to stop, say supervisors David Chiu, Scott Weiner and City Attorney Dennis Herrera.

They’ve crafted legislation that will require parking lot owners to make their asphalt lots and garages more secure, brighter and, in some cases, staffed later.

The issue, the three say, is that bands of young ruffians (they didn’t use that phrase, but boy we wish they did) spend their evenings hanging out in vacant parking lots usually filled with commuter cars. When they interact with revelers leaving nightclubs, hijinks ensue.

This upsets club owners, who say they are getting unfairly blamed for the parking-lot revelry.

“Something we should not be putting on the entertainment industry is a responsibility to deal with our society’s violence issues,” Wiener said.

The law will require that parking lots and garages submit a security plan, which may require them to improve lighting or fencing. Those within 1,000 feet of an entertainment establishment will be required to have a security guard or attendant on duty until 3 a.m. The legislation will be formally introduced Tuesday.

“This will send a message to the people outside of San Francisco who come here to a nightclub or bar that they will be safe,” said Steven Lee, the general manager of the Glas Kat nightclub.

But parking lot operators, aren’t so sure they like the idea.

“They want us to do what?” Tahir Zira, the owner of American West Parking said when we told him about the proposed law. “How can you keep the people there until 3 a.m., you have to pay them? That’s crazy. That makes no sense.”

Zira, who owns six lots throughout the city, said he wasn’t sure it was safe for his attendants to sit in the their little booths that late at night. Crime can be a problem, but not his problem, he said.

“Whatever they say is a good for the city,” he said referring to city officials,” I think it is not good.”